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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Meaning you turn the device into device *with* Android and then
> continue as with any Android device. Which I find quite lame way to
> run Ubuntu on a device that can run some sane os like GNU/linux.

Uh, what? If you have a device that can already run linux, then you
can just install desktop Ubuntu on it as normal.

If you're talking about an ARM-based phone, they typically can't run
normal linux distros (due to some closed hardware bits like graphics
cards), and the process of porting Ubuntu Touch to it generally looks
like "Get android/cyanogenmod running on it, then bootstrap ubuntu
touch on top of that".